Strong's G702 · Greek

Ἁρέτας

Aretas · ar-et'-as

of foreign origin; Aretas, an Arabian

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

Ἀρέτας (G702)

1 Ἀρέτας (WH, Ἀρ. ; Intr. , 313), -α, ὁ , Aretas , an Arabian king: II Co 11:32 (Deiss., BS , 183 f., thinks the proper spelling Ἀρέθας was changed, as Schürer suggests, "by desire to Hellenise a barbaric name by assimilation to ἀρετή ").†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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